Read this on your Nokia

Thanks to our friends in Google, this website is Nokia friendly so come and check it out on your mobile and maybe add a bookmark so you can read up on what's new for E72 fans when you're bored waiting for something or someone. That's all for now.. hopefully we will have a Nokia E6 to talk about soon so keep your eyes open!

While you're here, check out MyE63 or MyN8 websites as well for news about the Nokia E63 and Nokia N8. Or if you are interested in flashbacks, maybe head back to the blog that started it all My Nokia E65. Yeah, that's a lot of blogging. Hope it's helped you out :)

Vodafone Offers to Waive 9 Months of Contract

An interesting part of the Vodafone website has recently been found which offers people who have had their contract for 15 months or more, the opportunity to get a new Nokia phone with a new contract and waive the rest of the contract. Here are some details straight off the Vodafone site

 To say thanks for being a great customer, we'd like to offer you an early upgrade to any one of our new Nokia mobiles on any of our latest 24 month voice plans1. Simply choose any Nokia mobile on any current 24 month voice plan and we'll waive the remaining monthly commitment on your current mobile contract so you can start your new plan early. 

Available to all customers between months 15-23 of their current Vodafone Contract.
Offer ends 30 June 2011 unless extended.
To get this offer head in store or call 1300 301 464 today.

Data Roaming Warning When Changing Phones

Many of us are pretty cluey about how to avoid getting punished by the phone company for rogue data charges. In my case, I get slugged when my 3 connection goes roaming. Some of the things that I make sure on my phone phone is that I do not allow my phone to check emails when roaming. However, when you switch phones, it's easy to drop your guard. Your new touchscreen phone with widgets keep downloading updates from news sites that you will never read, using your internet connection whether or not you are roaming. So this is just a short post to remind everyone to watch their bills and be careful what your phone is doing behind your back.

So what inspired this post? Receiving my 3 phone bill after using a trial phone and discovering a little surprise in my roaming charges.

This one's for you E72 fans - Nokia E6

If you were following various blogs and websites, you would have heard yesterday of the announcement that Nokia is lining up the next E series phone that looks to replace your E72, with a touchscreen Symbian "Anna" version of your beloved phone.

It was only around two weeks ago, we posted our review of the Nokia E7. Some of the comments about how it is more of a two handed phone than what E72 users may be used to. As if to read our minds, the E6 offers everything that the E7 brings to the board room such as: 

USB to go - Allows you to read/edit anything on a thumb drive via your E72 sized device

TV-out - Projects your phone screen on to a TV screen, but I don't think it is HDMI

Joikuspot Premium - An essential app that enables internet sharing by using your phone as an internet hotspot

HD video recording - Filming professional videos of your conference/holiday from your phone. 

The difference? 

QWERTY - a real E72 keypad that you can't accidentally open apps or call people when you are juggling your phone with other things (this is one annoyance I found with complete touchscreen phones like E7 and N8).  

Symbian Anna - Newer version of the Symbian^3 with a new browser and faster/better/friendlier interface. In terms of home screens, you will get five, of which each allows you to vary the size and look of each icon. 

What do you lose? 

Autofocus camera - the 8MP camera is a full focus camera which from my limited experience with the E7 and C7, makes me wonder why we can't just move up to autofocus and forget full focus existed? However, I speak in ignorance having not tried the camera on the E6.. so watch this space. 

Scanner - We lamented this in our post about the E7, but here we go again. How many of you showed off to friends the feature of capturing a business card contacts using the multiscanner on the E72. Well, cherish those moments. 

As I said before on twitter, I am the kind of person who likes to type faster than one thinks, whilst others are the look-and-poke type phone operators. The touchscreens like the N8 and C7 are mostly for the latter and the E6 is for those that like to know where things are ahead of time. We'll talk more about this phone when we get a chance to play with one.